Combined water-cooler and refrigerator



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COMBINED WATER=COOLER AND REFRIGERATOR.

Application filed July 15, 1886.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,731, dated January 11, 1887.

Serial No. 208,140. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP H. STOROH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Water- Oooler and Refrigerator, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a combined water cooler and refrigerator; and it consists in so constructing and arranging the ice receiver or holder in relation to the interior parts that I secure a complete circulation of cold air, obtain a cold-water tank, and by the use of a double thickness of glass plates, thus forming air-spaces in the casing,I am able to construct a perfect water-cooler and refrigerator, and at the sametime one which will display all of the articles contained therein and can be made highly ornamental.

I have illustrated my invention by the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3 is a rear view. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on line 00 a: of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a top view.

Similar letters refer to like parts in the several Views. r

In the drawings, A represents the apartment used as the refrigerator, and which also has three minor apartments, aa a; and B is the icechamber and water-cooler, situated at the top and centrally located in the chamber or apartment A. Vertical partitions or walls a to extend from a point near the bottom floor of the apartment A to near thebottom of the icechamber B. p

The front and each side of the refrigeratorboX A are preferably constructed of glass plates 0 and O, the advantages and arrangement of which I shall hereinafter point out.

I prefer to construct the top and bottom of the refrigerator A of solid material, soldering their sheet-metal coverings m to that of the corner-posts and rear walls of said box, in the usual manner of constructing such articles. Racks E,to the number desired and resting on corner brackets or supports e, secured to the walls of the minor apartments an,are located to each side of the ice-chamber B. The vertical partition-walls a a have perforations a,

holding such as oysters, clams, and similar articles,while the other doors, a, form the means of ingress to the other minor apartments, in

which are located the racks E, upon which:

meats, vegetables, and like articles of food are to be placed. I

I prefer to construct my ice chamber or holder B of galvanized sheet metal, and to form said chamber with a flange, b, at the top, so as to form a support and a seat for the cover I); also, to use a rack, t, for supporting the ice above the cold water,'for the bottom of the ice-chamber B being convex will thus cause all of the drip produced from the moisture upon the'chamber to fall centrally in the line of the middle apartment, and by the use of two spigots, one front and one in the rear, cold water may be drawn either from the front or back of the device.

The use of two separate glass plates 0 and 0, used in forming the sides, and separated a suitable distance from each other,so as to form an air-space, O, and having air inlets and outlets Z'and p, respectively, for communicating with said air-space G, will thereby make a passage-way for the warm ascending hot air of the room, and the face of the inner glass plates, O, is tempered to such an extent that experience has shown that when the outside air has been ata high temperature,while the inside air will show a lower temperature of some twenty degrees, and even under any conditions, no moisture of any character whatever present itself upon any of the glasses, to the detrimentof seeing what is upon the inside of the refrigerator.

A small screen may be placed over the passages at the top, and small wooden rabbet strips I prefer to use in securing the side glass plates, 0, in position in the frames, for the reason that the same will better stand" the expansion and contraction due to the moisture.

The compact manner in which this machine can be constructed, capability of ornamental too 1. In a combined cooler and refrigerator,

the combination, with case and ice-chamber B, of the partitions a and double glass sides G, as set forth.

2. In a combined water-cooler and refrigerator, the combination, with case A and icechamber B, constructed substantially as described, ofiperforated partitions a and racks -E, asset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

PHILIP H. STORGH.

\Vitnesses:

WMJB. HIL'r, LEWIS F. BROUS. 

